Our Story
Joel believes that every child, including orphaned and disadvantaged children, have the potential to succeed and prosper, if given an opportunity.
Having been born and raised in a remote rural region of south-western Kenya, he knows first-hand the pain of poverty and hunger.
He firmly believes that the only way out of poverty is to get an education. He credits his opportunity for education to a missionary couple, the late Rev Arthur Leis and his late wife Margaret, former missionaries to Kenya, who made it possible for him to go to Canada to study.
Over the years, Joel and his wife Pat have supported orphaned, poor and disadvantaged children in Kenya and Zambia by paying school fees, books and school uniforms. Some of them are now graduates and contributing members of society.
They are working and are in turn helping educate their siblings and other members of their extended families. Joel believes that every child deserves an opportunity and should have a chance to get an education, and to work to his or her full potential and become a productive member of society.
Because of the rapid increase in the HIV/AIDS pandemic that has ravaged Kenya and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, the need to help support orphaned and disadvantaged children has also increased.
As a result of this need, Joel registered Teamwork Children’s Services International in 2006, a charitable organization to raise money to help support orphans and disadvantaged children in the rural areas of Kenya and Zambia, where there are few structured support systems, with the aim of providing children with, university, college education and vocational training.
We provide orphaned and disadvantaged children with education, nourishment, and a safe environment—giving them the opportunity to rise out of hardship and build independent, productive lives.
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